last day in Venice with Louis Vuitton

05/09/2011

[en]During the second and last day of our adventure with Louis Vuitton we went to visit their shoe atelier in Fiesso d’Artico.
I wrote atelier and not factory because it’s a place really distant from the classic idea of a factory. From the outside the structure may remember a huge shoe box, and on the inside there are numerous works of art, and plenty of green areas that look a bit like Japanese Zen gardens.

Indeed, the entire complex is thought to offer a comfortable and pleasant environment to work in; you wouldn’t have guessed that all the floors below the production lines are hardwood floors, would you? They tried to make the most out of the natural light this place has, and I have to say that the result is amazing.

Every single shoe sold by Louis Vuitton in the world is designed, manufactured and shipped from this beautiful and immense structure, both for men and women. You can feel their attention to product quality everywhere: from the raw materials, which we played with, to the hand-made seams and paintings, to the strict final quality assurance tests. We had two exceptional guides for this tour: the head of the men shoes department, Massimo Carta, and the director of the whole atelier Patrice Guillelmin, both extremely passionate about the products they make and the whole Louis Vuitton world.

The pictures in this post were taken by the official photographer, and I’ll publish my outfit and a short video later :)[/en]